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The Chicago-Sun Times is reporting that legendary film critic Roger Ebert has died at age 70 after a long battle with cancer. Ebert reviewed movies for the Chicago Sun-Times for 46 and famously on television for 31 years. He was by far the most prominent and influential film critic in the nation, if not the world.

We are sad to report the news that WWE Legend Paul Bearer, real name William Moody, is dead at age 58. Details surrounding his death are currently unclear, but it is reported that he has dealt with serious health issues over the last decade.

The longtime president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, died on Tuesday at the age of 58, following a two-year battle with cancer.

His famous line, "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" is one of the most famous quotes of all time, and today we are sad to hear the news that Neil Armstrong is dead at the age of 82.

It’s a sad day for lovers of ‘Sesame Street’ everywhere — Jerry Nelson, the puppeteer who gave Count von Count his voice passed away Thursday of unspecified causes at the age of 78.

- Our thoughts are with Usher and his family today as his 11-year-old stepson Kile Glover was laid to rest in private ceremony in Atlanta today (Friday, July 27). Glover was removed from life support after he was hit by a jet ski while floating on an inner tube on Lake Lanier in Atlanta.

Sherman Hemsley, a television fixture of the ’70s and ’80s, has died at his home in El Paso, Texas at age 74. His passing is being attributed to “natural causes.”

Usher's 11-year-old stepson has passed away from injuries suffered in a tragic jetski accident in Georgia earlier this month. Kile Glover, son of Usher's ex-wife Tameka Foster, was taken off of life support after it was determined that the injuries he sustained in the accident were too severe to overcome.

Police say that 12 people are dead and more than 59 people were wounded after an individual stormed into a "Batman" premiere in a Colorado theater and opened fire. The violent and chaotic scene erupted about 12:30 a.m. MDT as a gunman stood at the front of one of the Century 16 theaters at the Aurora Mall where the latest Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises" was playing. Read

The next time someone dies sitting next to you on a commercial flight, you might receive a partial refund. Key word, “might.” According to a report in a Swedish newspaper, a woman was forced to sit next to a dead man aboard a Kenya Airways flight after the he allegedly died shortly after take off.

Chris Brown has the rap forums abuzz over remarks he made about hip-hop in an interview with Fuse TV (spotted at Complex). The R&B crooner believes that hip-hop is dying off as a brand (or genre) because of its lack of marketability and profitability.

Chuck Brown, the Washington, D.C.-area funk icon known as the ‘Godfather of Go-Go,’ has died. He passed away today (May 16) at the age of 75. He died at Johns Hopkins University hospital in Baltimore.

TMZ is reporting that 'Beastie Boys' rapper MCA - real name Adam Yauch, has died. In 2009 Yauch announced that he was being treated for a cancerous parotid gland and a lymph node and since has undergone surgery and radiation therapy. The news was announced first via Def Jam founder Russell Simmons' blog Global Grind. Yauch leaves behind a wife and a daughter. He was 47.

TMZ reports former All-Pro linebacker Junior Seau has died.

Its a story you thought could only come from Hollywood...A pet hamster dies, dad buries the family pet, and the pet comes back to life. However, this is NO Hollywood story here. TheSun had a story about a four-year-old hamster that apparently died and was buried, then rose from the dead.

I know everyone has to make a living, but this is on the verge of taking it a little far for a 'Golden Opportunity.'  In Colorado, one of the local embalmers received the cuffs for selling the gold teeth he found in his dead 'patients' mouth.  Normally its not weird when people walk into a pawn shop to sell stuff, but I would be asking questions if someone showed up with teeth.

Like many of you, we too are shocked to hear that singer/actress Whitney Houston has died. According to TMZ, the singer died today. Her rep has confirmed her death and there are very few details at this time.

Michael Jackson is one of those celebrities that earned a lot of money during his lifetime and keeps racking it in well after. Just because a celebrity dies it doesn’t mean that their work or the fan interest goes away. Every year around Halloween, Forbes reveals their list of the Top-Earning Dead Celebrities over the past year (October 2010 to October 2011), and Jackson is clearly tops.

I really don't know where to start with this one. I will be polite and say, this is failed parenting 101. The parents in this video not only allow their daughter to play with a DEAD squirrel, they proceed to RECORD the incident!!!

Twitter has seen some zany faux-accounts lately, including a NY Bronx Zoo snake escapee, Adolf Hitler and some random guy's liver. So when Osama Bin Laden rose from the dead and began tweeting via numerous accounts on Sunday night, it was only a little strange. Mostly, though, it was funny.